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Fresh

The Tomatometer is 60% or higher.

Rotten

The Tomatometer is 59% or lower.

Certified Fresh

Movies and TV shows are Certified Fresh with a steady Tomatometer of 75% or higher after a set amount of reviews (80 for wide-release movies, 40 for limited-release movies, 20 for TV shows), including 5 reviews from Top Critics.

Star Wars: Holiday Special Reviews

The infamous Star Wars Holiday Special is every bit as bad as you've heard. It's tedious and bizarre. There's about 20 minutes of incomprehensible wookie grunting and growling. Chewbacca's father, Scratchy, watches an erotic video, Mark Hamill has so much makeup he looks like a talking mannequin (truly creepy), then Carrie Fisher sings a painful song at the end for the crummy Life Day ending. If you were not a Star Wars fan in 1978 and decided to catch this "special" on TV just to see what the craze was all about, you would probably have been turned off the whole thing. It took me three sittings to get through the entire thing, because I kept falling asleep. I'm pretty sure no one got through the entire airing the one and only time this was on TV, which is why this travesty has mostly been forgotten.

A triple insult to fans of sci fi, the holiday season, and cinema in general. Nothing redeems this movie at all, it is depressingly terrible in its wasted potential. I have a tradition of watching it every December, it really teaches you to appreciate the good things you have in life (which isn't this movie).

This is literally the worst movie I've seen in my life. I hated everything on it but the ewoks. Now I understand why George Lucas wants every copy of this burned!Really, if you want to waste 2 hours of your life, watch it. The plot is bad, the acting is bad, the scenography is bad and the effects are bad; and I'm a hardcore Star Wars fan.

Worst movie you're ever likely to see. Made in 1978 to cash in on the popularity of Star Wars, it's a mish-mash of gobbledygook with a stupid plot. I think it was designed to be a vehicle for popular entertainment acts of that era, like Jefferson Starship, embedded in a PC sci-fi, Star Wars backdrop. It takes place on "Life Day" on the Wookie planet. How hokey and PC can you get? I can't believe this movie gets 50% on RT. Must be because so few people have been able to see it. It was shown once, on 11/17/78, and the reaction was so negative, it's never been shown again nor released on Beta/VCR/DVD/Blueray. I'll bet Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, and Carrie Fisher don't have this on their resumes. One positive note, though - it features the debut of Boba Fett in a cartoon short.